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I want to make a 'guy' altered clipboard for dh. Instead of decorating with die cut flowers - I thought I'd do it with pictures of dds. Can I use Mod Podge over the pictures or will it ruin them? Any other suggestions? :confused:
I had a same question months ago when I was making a coach clipboard. I was told to use the original photo, rather than photocopies. It turned out great, in fact, I hope to do another one for my son's baseball coach this week. Good luck, it's so fun!!
Just don't use photos that were printed at home on an inkjet printer. They would smear!
I'm glad I saw this thread! I was planning to do this within the next few days! That's a shame that it would smear. I print all my photos from home now!
Actually I just tried it on a photo I printed at home (a test photo I was going to throw away) and it didn't smear at all. I would wait at least 24 hours after you print before trying this though. That is what kodak recomends for drying time. oh I have hp printer and was using kirkland photo paper (not sure if any of that matters)
Just wanted to check and see if anyone else has done this? I printed mine in black and white on Monday night and just MP'd over them today (Thursday) and they smeared horribly... I'm going to see if there's a way to get them printed somewhere else, but I used the 2x3 size...so I'll have to look around...
I've mp'd over photos that I printed on my Epson inkjet with no problems. I printed on smooth photopaper, not glossy paper, so I don't know if that makes a difference or not. I printed 2 days before creating the project so it was able to dry for about 48 hours before the mp was applied.
Vegaswife - altered clipboards. My husband plays piano so I'm making him one that has musical paper in sepia on it and putting our girls' pictures in black and white as the 'decoration' instead of my normal flower route...
I just had an idea.... how about if you sprayed the photo with some kind of Fixative, like you would when you do chalks.... maybe that would seal it enough to modge over???? I dont' have any to try though.. Darn, maybe I will now!
__________________ Lynne Life is short, enjoy what you have! :cool:
It might depend on the paper, I printed some black and white photos on not so great paper (Epson Glossy) and when I modpodged over them, they turned pink!! of course it took about 5 minutes for the change to happen so it was already starting to dry. I had to try and peel them off super carefully so not to rip the paper underneath and I ended up modpodging the rest of the project, and adhering the pictures to the top after the m.p. was dry. Good to know it's not impossible!
Can I Mod Podge over photos?
